What do you class as high end for GPU's?

[MEC-777]

There seems to be, more or less, a general consensus that 970/390 is where the high-end range starts at least. They are the "affordable" high-end cards and what's above them are mostly enthusiast cards - where the diminishing returns start to kick in.  

[Real_PhillBert]

I guess I consider high end to be the 980, 980ti, Titan x, and Fury, Fury X.

 

Mid range is the 960, 970, 390x, 390, 380x and  380. 

 

Just my opinion though.

[Keudn]

High end - Titan X, 980ti, 980

Mid tier - 970, 960

Low end - 950

 

Obviously the equivalents for AMD as well I just don't feel like writing them lol

[iamdarkyoshi]

I dont know a whole lot about nvidia cards other than the fact that they have tweaked their drivers to get every last bit of performance out of those cards, and AMD has less optimized drivers, but I still use AMD for whatever reason. I like the 390x because I own one and its mine. Never goes above 40 degrees.

[MrTiC]

100-200, low 200-400 mid, 400-800 high, 800-1000+ no point (all in euro) 

[PlayStation 2]

anything i can't afford

so everything

[tomas710]

I would say 960, 950, 750 ti, R9 370, R9 260X are mid end, 970, 390, 390x, 980 are high and Fury upwards is enthutiast class. You gotta consider that if the 750 ti/960 are the popular cards, that's a standard of how much gamers spend. AMD does it differently, R5 is low, R7 is mid, R9 is high and 290 upwards is enthusiast. For the new gen, the HBM cards are enthusiast, the 380/90/90x are high and so on.

[Briggsy]

I would personally go by the resolution a card or setup is designed for. This will change over time as the most common resolution goes up, but for right now:

 

 

Enthusiast class = 4K and surround/eyefinity... 295x2, dual-fury (yet to be released), and other strong SLI/Crossfire setups with Hawaii, Fury or Maxwell 2.0

 

High End = 1440p... Single Fury/X, 290/x, 390/x, 970, 980/ti, TitanX,

 

Mid Range (most common) = 1080p...  Single gtx950, gtx960, gtx750ti, R7 360, R7 370, R9 380

 

Low End = 720p/900p/1080p... AMD APU's, Intel Iris Pro, Intel HD, Sub $100 discrete GPU's,

[Hieb]

the horsepower needed to get nearly twice the FPS, is more then "twice the horsepower".... so performance pr dollar isnt quite a linear metric here. 

 

wat

 

Not to mention, games favoring one or the other vendor would shift things dramatically

 

 

Yeah I tried to avoid such games... didnt include Company of Heroes for this reason, as the R9 380 literally did 3x better than the 750 Ti in this...

[Prysin]

wat

 

 

Yeah I tried to avoid such games... didnt include Company of Heroes for this reason, as the R9 380 literally did 3x better than the 750 Ti in this...

knowing how DX12 will most likely boost AMD, yeah, GPU horsepower isnt scaling linearly atm.... wait until AMD GPUs can use 100% of their performance... then you'll see a more real scaling though....

[TroubleKlef]

X80 and Titan cards.

 

x60-x70 are mid tier

 

any below is entry level